Mike Vaniman is Chef Sitting Bull, Richard Blue is Buffalo Bill and Jackie Collison is Annie Oakley in Asheville Community Theatre's current production of 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Written by

Jim Cavener
| Citizen-Times Correspondent

Over the past three decades, we've come to know that when a classic of the American musical theater genre features Jerry Crouch in any role, this is a theater experience to make time and space to see and enjoy.

That proves to be no less true of Asheville Community Theatre's "Annie Get Your Gun," the musical tale of sharpshooter Annie Oakley, directed by Crouch.

We've come to expect a large, stage-filling cast from these ACT musicals, and this 40-some company of actors of all ages fills the space as well as satisfies our need to be distracted by the single stage equivalent of a three-ring circus. The ...